The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Surely it's no coincidence that the Era of the AUMF, the Era of Endless War, is also the Golden Era of the Chickenhawk. We keep electing leaders who, on the most basic experiential level, literally have no idea what they're doing.

Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.

1984,' one of the most important works ever written, helped us understand the Cold War. In '1984,' the dictatorship was always surveilling you. Now, young people want to be surveyed. They want people to know where they are at all times.